David Hyatt wrote:
> On Apr 12, 2009, at 5:44 PM, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:
>
>> David Hyatt wrote:
>>> On Apr 12, 2009, at 5:19 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> That is not what I was asking for.
>>>>
>>>> Suppose I have elements A and B with intrinsic widths 100px and
>>>> 200px respectively. Suppose the container has width 400px, and I
>>>> want the extra space to be distributed equally to A and B, so they
>>>> end up with widths 150px and 250px. Your proposal has no way to do
>>>> this as far as I can tell, nor is it possible by setting min-widths
>>>> or max-widths.
>>>>
>>>> This is actually the default behaviour for XUL boxes, so it seems
>>>> important to me that any flex-box-like spec be able to do it.
>>> Yeah, I just brought this up in my last message as well. The only
>>> way I can see to solve this for flex units is to actually specify
>>> both values, e.g.,
>>> width: (100px)1*
>>> or something like that....
>>
>> I am not sure I understand the problem.
>>
>> If you will define:
>>
>> #A { width:max-intrinsic; padding-left:1*; padding-right:1* }
>> #B { width:max-intrinsic; padding-left:1*; padding-right:1* }
>>
>> than widths of *border* boxes will be set in the way you want.
>>
>> Is this the answer or I've missed something?
>>
>
> Flexing padding won't flex the content width of the boxes, which can be
> very relevant. If width is a value other than intrinsic for example.
>
> #A { width: 200px; box-flex: 1; }
>
> The object would first lay out at 200px and then it would flex to fill
> the remaining space. If the box's max-intrinsic width is larger than
> 200px, then flexing will enable more content to fit in the larger
> available width after flexing.
>
How this
#A { width: 200px; box-flex: 1; }
is different from this:
#A { min-width: 200px; width:1*; }
?
Seems like XUL is using a concept of "preferred width" that I do not
understand. How is that "preferred width" is related to min-width,
max-width and the width in CSS?
Or is it something different completely?
> dave
> (hyatt@apple.com)
>
>
>
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